Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-07-30
IFrom the I@epherdstosce Register

From the iSsepheTdst0tC71 xtegaSter.J
The Hagerstown Mail says that last
week Mr.. Beeler and his wife, of
Tilghmanton, drove over to Will
Transport to sell a lot of brooms of
their own manufacture. Mr.. Beeler
is 80 years of age, Mrs. Beeler is Sc,
and the horse they drove is 81 years
old and the carriage they went in was
built in 1S16-all so different from the
veneering family.
Whenever you see a girl on the
street on dress parade, taking short,
dainty steps, you can bet your bot
tom dollar she has on one of those new
tangled arrangements called "re-
tarder." It's kind of mashed bird
cage, bullying wire arrangement, with
leather check rein and martingale at
tachments, which, when properly
adjusted, will reduce the natural
stride to short, dainty step-so
mincing and coquettish, you know.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance, about three weeks ago, Of
little Emma Grace Clabaugh, not yet
two years old, daughter Of Mr.. Will
liam Clabaugh, residing near Sabillas-
Vile, Frederick county, Md, has
been solved by the finding other dead
body in strip ofwoods not two miles
from the home from which she had
strayed. The body was in terribly
mutilated condition, evidently the
work of animals Of some kind. 1t is
thought that she wandered so far
from her home that she could not
find her way back, and afterward per.
ished of hunger and exposure.
BIT OF MORE THAN He COULD
CHEw.--Last week several young men
from Hagerstown were encamped
above Shepherdstown on fishing
trip. One of the young gentlemen,
Master Howard Fahrney, made a
queer catch. Spyinga large fish float
| ing on the surface of the water, to-
ward the middle of the river, he got
into a boat and started in pursuit.
Capturing the fish, he found that 1t
was a five-pound bass, that it was yet
alive, and that it had undertaken to
swallow large sucker and had chok-
ed in the effort, literally biting of
more than it could swallow. 1t was
a big aud easy catch, and win 60 on
record as enc of the things that rarely
happen in the experience Of fisher
men hereabouts.
WAR Understanding to the
Sbippensburg Nesos, the Shippens-
burg Fishing Club, which was en-
camped for week or more on the
Potomac near Shepherdstown, was
successful in finding relics of the late
war, even if they did not get a great
many fish. The location of their
camp, says the Netcs, was near the
spot where the Corn Exchange Regi-
ment, of Philadelphia, met with such
terrific loss after the battle Of An
tietam, which was twenty-five years
ago. They found on this Inflated
spot the entire skeleton of a soldier,
and an officers sabre, the latter In
perfect condition. DIR. Martin took
charge of the soldiers remains, and
the sabre is now in the possession of
Bruce McCreary.
THE APPLE CRoP.-According to
the statistician of the Agricultural
Department at Washington the pros.
pect for the apple crop Is discourag.
ing to almost every section Of the
country save New York and New
England where the conditions are uI
to the average seasons.
BARN BURNED.-The large barn on
the farm of Mr.. A. l.. Withers, about
six miles southwest of Charleston
near Ripon, was struck by lightning
during a storm last Sunday afternoon
and burned to the ground. Abou,
one thousand bushels of wheat in the
rick, several tons of hay and large
courthouse near the barn were aIsr
burned. The entire loss will foot III
several thousand dollars. The barr
was insured In the Loudonn County
Mutual, but there was no Insurance
on the other property.
| In Berkeley county, July u, 1887
Mr.. John Piper, aged 20 years,
months and 20 days.
| Little Margaret Knott, infan
daughter Of G.. NJ. and Fannie E